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Historic, military metaphors and qualifiers
Welcome to week 17 of Words of the Week, where I teach you how to write better
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Militate and mitigate, authentic and disintermediate
The 16th instalment of Words of the Week, my glossary of poor language usage
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Abstraction, euphemism and uncertainty
The 15th instalment of Words of the Week, my glossary of poor language usage
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Onboarding, proactive and meaningless words
The 14th edition of words of the week takes on some of the worst of corporate jargon
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April 2025

Architect, benchmark and the abandonment of ordinary language
The 13th instalment of Words of the Week, with some help from Keats and Nietzsche
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Behaviours, sport and American English
Week 12 of Words of the Week, my dictionary of poor language and terminology
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Iconic, statistic and same page
This is the 11th instalment of Words of the Week, my dictionary of poor language
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Simplicity, precision and brevity
To mark the tenth edition of words of the week, an essay on the three virtues of writing persuasively
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Red tape, optionality and false ranges
Week 9 of Words of the Week, my dictionary of poor language usage
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Philip Collins

March 2025

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